Driving with blinders.

Mary Barra,  that's the head cheese at General Motors.  Seems she inherited a really nasty problem.  Apparently GM made millions of cars that the key switch randomly turned itself off.  When you turn off the key at 60 miles per hour, you can no longer steer or brake.  That becomes interesting in a hurry.  If you are quick minded you can turn the key back on.  Problem is several people were not quick and died.


Reports are that GM knew about the problem a long time ago.  Maybe 10 years.  The sticky part is they didn't tell anyone or create a recall.  Somewhere in the process they did fix the problem but didn't make it retro-active by way of a recall.


Mary, now on the hot seat ,  says they (GM) need to fix their process.  I find it interesting that She thinks the problem is that the system did not fix the engineering problem.  I think the broken part of the system is that a decision was made to not spend the money needed to fix the millions of cars already infected with a defective switch.  Fresh off of a Government bailout,  GM most assuredly decided it better to keep quiet and not suffer the losses associated with such a massive recall.


I am appalled that GM has not taken  responsibility for the deaths that occurred due to their faulty engineering.  It is one thing to make a mistake, it is entirely different to sweep such problems under the rug.  It seems that even large companies are guilty of driving while blind.